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By Arnie Leshin  Not much has changed at St. John’s University in Middle Village Queens, one of the five New York boroughs.  It is still on Utopia Drive on its own private campus of approximately 1,000 acres in a relatively residency area. It is still athletically a Division I four-year school. It …

Catches of the week Rio Chama: Christopher Ortega and Peter Ortega of Albuquerque caught and released several trout up to 18 inches long using streamer and nymph flies below Abiquiu Lake Nov. 24. Tingley Beach: Jason Jaramillo caught and released a 20-inch rainbow trout using a black streamer fly in …

By Arnie Leshin At New Mexico State University, it was a whole new world for Pascal Siakam. He had arrived from his native land of Cameroon as a total stranger, his English was fair, his friends were new, but he sure could play the global game of basketball. Greg Heirar …

By Arnie Leshin  South Carolina and Stanford and who? Maybe the polls are mad at Geno Auriemma, record-setting genius with 11 NCAA women’s basketball championships. But with yet another outstanding lineup despite the injury absence of star All-America Paige Bueckers, not bad for these Huskes and their faithful. Not bad …

By Arnie Leshin  The University of Miami in South Florida has always had a quality football program, and at 5-6 against visiting Pittsburgh Saturday, it needed a sixth win to qualify for another bowl. But the Panthers had better ideas, rolling past the Hurricanes, 42-16, to earn their own bowl …

By Arnie Leshin  They were a wild three years for the pro football New Jersey Generals. No. 1, after an uphill battle for a lease in the United States Football League, at then Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, and owned by young 37-year-old real estate dynamite Donald J. Trump, they …

By Arnie Leshin  Wake-up call for the Academy of Technology and The Classics boys basketball team that just doesn’t believe in calling in its results. But at least the ACTAC girls let their results be known, with a Saturday 46-23 non-district romp over visiting Mora that put their record at …

By Arnie Leshin  It was two decades ago, a sunny Saturday afternoon at St. Michael’s Christian Brothers Athletic Complex. It was the semifinals of the then-state 4A playoffs. It was a back-and-forth tussle now in the fourth overtime as the sun continued to fade into the sunset. “We had spoken …

By Arnie Leshin  They are down to the nitty gritty on the New Mexico high school football field. Excluding the conclusion of 6 and 8-team ball, five state classes was the opening number, and last Friday night it became four when 2A wound down with undefeated top-seeded visiting Jal turning …

By Arnie Leshin  Ruidoso has preferred to sleep in its own beds instead of hitting the 193-mile road to Santa Fe on Friday, having a practice, and then getting set for the state high school football championship scheduled for a 1 p.m. kickoff at Ivan Head Stadium. Ivan Head was …